The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Posting this from my back-up computer...An acer aspire one net-book that has a few reliability issues. So far my garden plot is looking good, I mean it is turning into a little jungle.

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• vacation, n. A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate.
• Vail's Second Axiom The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.
• Van Roy's Law An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
• Van Roy's Law Honesty is the best policy - there's less competition.
• Van Roy's Truism Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control.
• Vanilla, adj. Ordinary flavor, standard. See FLAVOR. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract! For example, "vanilla-flavored won ton soup" (or simply "vanilla won ton soup") means ordinary won ton soup, as opposed to hot and sour won ton soup.
• Velilind's Laws of Experimentation (1) If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. (2) If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
• volcano, n. A mountain with hiccups.
• Volley Theory It is better to have lobbed and lost than never to have lobbed at all.
• vuja de The feeling that you've *never*, *ever* been in this situation before.

+ Viking, n.

1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning in the 9th century.

Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront property.

(I guess I won't be likely to finish the alphabet, as I imagine Alex will ban me soon.)

# vuja de The feeling that you've *never*, *ever* been in this situation before.

hihi ! !

vacation, n. A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate.

Daniel Tammet is guest on the show Museum of Curiosity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00slqw1

Mine too, got to keep on top of the weeding though or it would be overrun in no time. By the way I'm only 8 posts behind your count now Richie!

an unauthorized browser is eating the mint in the planter on my upstairs balcony. we have no idea who it is. find no bugs, see no mouse turds.... hmmmmm.

semi-humourous moment of the week: ok, i'm mobility impaired at the moment. went to target (similar to walmart for those who don't have "target" stores). only one mobility scooter available, the battery almost dead. could have drag-raced with a snail and lost. literally. barely moving, but it moved so i didn't have to walk, which tends to be painful. got to the aisle that has the kiosk at the end of it that has the "push this button to hear our music" thingy on it. just as i came creaking up to it (toddlers learning to walk were outpacing me badly by this time) it kicked in loudly with the song "wipeout." (a very upbeat, uptempo california surfing tune).

i guess you'd need to have been there, having taken almost 5 minutes to have gotten from the front of the store on the saddest mobilityscooter on the planet. all i could do was look over at it, and then over at the kid, who had gone ahead and walked up and gotten the groceries already and was heading back to me with them. she just cracked up laughing at me.

yeah, ....wipeout!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIyjdmlHCs[/youtube]

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taking exams and busy, almost holidays yay

good luck on exams! always nice when they are over.

life. sigh.

last night, i'm on my mattress on the floor in the den (can't sleep in my own room, long story). can't move quickly without incurring the wrath of the upset muscles/nerves. just at the head of my mattress are two good-sized bookcases, 8 ft tall, just full of hardback books. the bookcases are blocking a pass-through bar area, so they are not secured to the wall. they are fully capable of either toppling or hurling those items on their shelves. so, i'm blissfully sliding off into dreamland when we get a 5.7 roller. the groaners are one thing, the rattlers are annoying but more or less harmless (except for the plaster), the jolters are another thing entirely (they tend to give you one big jolt, which does move some things, but usually not far). the rollers just go on and on and tend to move things around - sling pictures off the walls and glasses out of cabinets. and books and knick-knacks off of bookshelves..... needless to say, curl and roll over under the table and wait, then crawl back to bed. wondering if it was a foreshock or that was gonna be it for the night.

all of which tells the senile cat, of course, that she must come tell me about the rumblie. and every one of the 40+ ones i'd never have known about but that she felt/heard that happened all night. unlike the rat, who tells in advance by gnawing on the bars, the cat has to wait until after it happens, then come bat at my face until i'm awake, then meow several times before going off to find someplace to curl up.

my life would be a bad sitcom, if i wrote it down for real.

thanks nan, but it's not my exams, it's the pupil's (still nice when they are over, but also interesting to see what they have learned this year)
but i am really in the need for the holidays (close to exhaustion)

i'll say a little prayer to the stable(? from stability) bookshelf and house angel

First my son turning 13 and now my baby turning double digits (10)

Not a bad sitcom. We're lapping it up. Perhaps it's the way you tell them?

Do Californians ever copy interior styling hints from boats? So that things don't fall out of storage?

You'd think they would, wouldn't you? But I've never seen it anywhere. They do have kits for strapping your large appliances and large furniture to the walls, though. So they don't walk or fall over.

They say that the strain from the last big rumblie has transferred to the Elsinore fault, which hasn't ruptured in 100 years. But that the probability is low for a major incident on that fault. Then why tell us? It's not like it's going to matter. They don't know when one's going to hit, and can say things like "there will be major aftershocks for a period of years after a large quake." Woot. As if we haven't got that.

Eh, whatever. Hopefully senile cat will have been awake all day and so will sleep all night regardless of what she hears/feels. She slept through the big Easter quake, dammit! We found her curled up in her basket. She just stretched and gave us the "hello, huuuumans, what are you doing?" meow when we went to see if she was dead in there or not.

Lurking and stimming as usual...

ooooo, TWO hormonal monsters in the same house. Good Luck!

Hey, they say Ottowa (sp?) Canada had a 5.0 rumblie a couple of hours ago that was felt as far south as northern PA. Imagine that! And now you get the aftershocks, for days and days, but probably won't know they're happening.

SO, Postie, enjoy the ride?